Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Complex center embedding in German - The effect of sentence position -- Constituent order in German multiple questions: Normal order and (apparent) anti-superiority effects -- On the Limits of Non-Parallelism in ATB Movement: Experimental Evidence for Strict Syntactic Identity -- Measure Phrase Constructions in English, German, and French: The (Non-)Occurrence of Antonyms and Effects of Evaluativity -- Interpreting aggregated distances. The case of Old High German texts -- Relative Object Order in High and Low German -- Modeling language contact with diachronic crosslinguistic data -- Diachronic Development of Null Subjects in German -- What Determines 'Freezing' Effects in was-für Split Constructions? -- Index